John Daly

Kenny Vance knows talent. When the former member of Jay and the Americans, who served as musical director of "Saturday Night Live" and such films as "Animal House" and "American Hot Wax," worked with a pair of unknown musicians in 1967 with the names Walter Becker and Donald Fagen he was bowled over.

"I dealt with so many guys [at the famed Brill Building]," Vance says. "Obviously not everyone was great. But these two were different. They had obvious songwriting talent and more."

Becker and Fagen arranged string and horn sections for Jay and the Americans before becoming one of the most seminal acts during the 1970s thanks to...

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